ECI Partners, a mid-market private equity firm which manages funds of over £2bn, and made two new hires – Ben Kirrage as an Investment Manager, and Georgia Ling as an Investment Analyst, as it scales its investment team.
Kirrage joins from FNZ, a global wealth management platform, where he was Chief of Staff for the European business and a member of the Strategy and Corporate Development team. Prior to FNZ, he worked in the M&A advisory teams at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods and Raymond James, where he focused on transactions involving software, data, and services businesses across the financial services ecosystem.
At ECI, he will focus on sourcing and executing investments into high-growth, resilient businesses across ECI’s core sub-sectors, and will also work closely with management teams across the ECI portfolio to support their strategic and operational development.
Ling meanwhile, will support the investment team in identifying and converting deals across the ECI pipeline. After graduating from University College London, she started her financial career at Rothschild & Co as an M&A Analyst with a tech focus, gaining experience in the IoT, Office of the CFO and vertical software sectors.
